Rosen Diankov, Ph.D 出杏光魯仙であんこうろせん

My ultimate goal is to solve the robotics problem: combine vision, perception, planning, and control into one
coherent framework to create intelligent and autonomous robots. Since I joined The Robotics Institute,
I've been working on such an architecture titled OpenRAVE.
My current research focuses on
building automatic construction of autonomous manipulation programs
without requiring programmers to tweak endless parameters or write
scripts. Although I'm very interested
in getting humanoid/mobile-manipulator robots in the kitchen to help
out with chores, the ultimate applcation of this research is industrial
robotics. I also work on robot vision
and am looking for effective ways to plan around environments using
cameras attached to the robot.

Robots

I was a JSPS research fellow during 2007 at the AIST Digital Human Research Center
working on the humanoid robot HRP2. Under the supervision
of Dr. Satoshi Kagami and Dr. Koichi Nishiwaki, I jointly developed
a system to get humanoid robots to grasp objects in dynamic environments without specifying apriori how the objects should be grasped.

For a short period of time, I had the honor of interning at Willow
Garage, a new robotics startup. Since then, I adopted the ROS robotics
architecture and was able to focus OpenRAVE only for motion planning
research.

Currently I'm collaborating with the JSK Robotics Lab at the University of Tokyo on building intelligent humanoids.